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pkill17··on Font Awesome 4 released
Try adding the 'fa-spin' class to any element type; entire <div>'s and <section>'s start spinning.
pkill17··on CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]
This isn't about the budget; this is about not having enough TA's to assist with the class as well as the class possibly being "too easy" the last iteration. Berkeley holds each CS course to within a range of average GPAs: If a class deviates from this range, it's deemed abnormal and the administration takes account to correct it. Speculation has it that this class was previously on the high end of the GPA range, and thus was made more "difficult".
pkill17··on CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]
You may be the confused one: "Breadth courses choose two from the following" http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/csugrad/

I didn't say it was required, but it's in the "choose-two" allotment of breadths.

pkill17··on CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]
For those unfamiliar with our curriculum: CS161 is given as a "choose-two of these required courses" choice in order to complete the CS major. Many students are enrolled out of necessity.
pkill17··on CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]
Not a budget issue; they just couldn't staff enough TA's (not enough students expressed interest in becoming a TA).
pkill17··on The UC Berkeley Big Data AMP Camp, August 29-30
"Going" in the sense that I'll be walking by I-House on my route to classes those two days :P
pkill17··on World's Oldest Genome Sequenced From 700,000-Year-Old Horse DNA
Should be interesting to see how sequencing goes on that wooly mammoth recovered a week or two ago. Not sure of the complexities involved, but hopes were high the blood was mostly intact.
pkill17··on NSA and the Pandora’s box of surveillance
Briefly interned (two weeks) for Booz Allen this Summer. While the people I met and interacted with for that short amount of time were excellent and of good spirit, the general opinion I got was that people did not enjoy their day. Much like a traitor of a country is usually disgruntled with their homeland, I can't imagine more leaks aren't right around the corner. Tech consulting firms do not share in the amazing atmosphere of tech consumer-facing companies, and as such may be the last place for loyalty.
pkill17··on You're the only one seeing this page
Not very profound, really. Sure; no one else will see the exact permutation I saw, but what does it matter? The graph had no meaning attached to it; the values were 'random'. If there was a datapoint with information meaningful and pertinent to my own life on this page, then I'd be blown away. But instead I have a squiggly graph.
pkill17··on Pilot SSH is now available on Android
So here's a confusion I'm having; your site doesn't clearly define what the product does in my preliminary scanning of the website... Is it an SSH client that I can run commands from? Or is an interface for script calling on a remote host with the touch of a button?

What's the $5/$3 incentive for me to use this instead of using the free apps I already have for SSH'ing on Android/iPhone, and just having bash scripts saved into my home dir?

pkill17··on Skrollr - parallax scrolling for the masses
Pegged my CPU for 115%, even when NOT scrolling. 13in, Late-2011, i7 2.8Ghz MBP
pkill17··on Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home
> Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), one of the chief critics of the surveillance programs, was spotted leaving the briefing.

Presumably leaving out of disgust for Clapper's lies; but the media will leave it short like this to make it seem he's marginally apathetic.

pkill17··on Show HN: Flattest Route - A web app to help you avoid hills in SF
The dots used for showing the difficulty can be dragged when altering the route. Other than minor finicky things like that, it seems to be a neat idea. Cool work!
pkill17··on Morris Worm Incident Report #1 (1988) [pdf]
A very detailed report on an early computer virus called the Morris Worm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm).

It's actually extremely interesting; the fix even goes into editing assembly if the source of the affect program isn't available to recompile.

pkill17··on SpoofMAC - Spoof your MAC address in Mac OS X
Seems a bit silly to write a python script for this when most people have it in a bash function. I find running a python command through the interpreter like that to be cumbersome, but a good script nonetheless.

On another note: GO BEARS! Down with the tree!

pkill17··on The University of California Logo Controversy
Like this you mean? http://i.imgur.com/K7LzA.gif
pkill17··on The University of California Logo Controversy
As a student of the university, we've been notified that the logo will be going back onto the drawing boards soon. They didn't plan on abolishing the UC Berkeley seal as many UCB students thought; this is only to unify the image of all UC's.

We got a massive petition signed to abolish the new logo, and the outcry when they announced this was overwhelmingly negative on campus. No one liked it, and it seems the administration has realized that.

pkill17··on Amazon EC2 currently down. Affecting Heroku, Reddit, Others
Their CoLo space is the same space shared by AOL and a few other big name tech companies. It's right next to the Greenway, just before you reach IAD going northeast. That CoLo facility seems pretty unreliable in the scheme of things; Verizon and Amazon both took major downtime this summer when a pretty hefty storm rolled through VA[1], but AOL's dedicated datacenters in the same 10 mile radius all experienced no downtime whatsoever.

Edited: [1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/30/amazo...

pkill17··on How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome
Your examples break federal law; I'm exploiting Amazon's proprietary codebase to lower my prices / someone is still breaking and entering into my home. Those aren't moral because federal laws are being broken.

If Amazon charged $20 for a book if I were to buy it on my laptop, but $10 for that same book if I buy it with my phone, why in the hell would I buy it on my laptop? How is that immoral? I'm presented with two options: $10 or $20 for the same item. The company has offered me a contract of payment and I am to choose one, or I can take my patronage elsewhere. This is not a matter of breaking into a server and SQLi'ing until you can make an item free; this is the company offering me something for cheaper, depending on how I buy it.

pkill17··on How I hacked Gogo inflight wireless Internet with Chrome
It's basic capitalism; if this "vulnerability" wasn't built into their code, would you submit to a more expensive price on your laptop when you could just as easily get half off (for the same product) on your phone?

If there were no 'hack', and I went on that plane knowing full well that I was going to purchase internet access, I would buy the half-off solution and tether to my phone.

As a user, this is a valid set of decisions. Since they're implementing this in a stupid way, it's perfectly valid to exploit their method and pay for the cheaper item.

If you went to the supermarket and found an item at $10, but you had the option of doing 5 jumping jacks to lower the price to $5, what would you do? Is it immoral to do jumping jacks?

pkill17··on JFK's Application to Harvard
And how would you reply to a letter from ole Joe Kennedy if it were placed in your Inbox at work? ;)
pkill17··on AOL: still providing insanity after all these years
Much higher than 88%; past year AOL has seen over 150% increase in its stock price.

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...

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